J. D. Beresford 16 min read

There was a time, he begins, when I decided I was a fraud, that I could be a psychical researcher no longer, and would give it all up for the comforting materialism of the late Victorians.

J. D. Beresford's 1905 story is a wry, atmospheric psychical-research ghost tale. Clever, ironic, well-turned. Read it for a genial supernatural story where a disillusioned investigator, ready to renounce the whole business, is confronted by a most inconvenient and persuasive poltergeist.

In its time

Published in 1905, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

16 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).